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FENCE WIRE.

No. 539,390. Patented May 14, 1895.

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MATHIAS F. MQNELLY, OF STERLING, ILLINOIS.

FENCE-WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 539,390, dated May 14,1895. Application filed January 29, 1894. Serial No.498,313- (No model.)

To all whom zit may concern.-

Be it known that I, MATHIAs F. MONELLY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Sterling, in the county of Whiteside and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fence-Wire; and Ido declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form apart of this specification.

My invention has reference to improvements in fence wire, and consistsessentially in providing the wire, in the course of its manufacture,with one or more closed eyelets, adapted, when the wire is in place, toreceive cross ties of wire, or any other suitable material, to act aslateral stays of the main wires. It will be understood that, when themain wires aforesaid, provided at regular intervals with said eyelets,are in place on the fence the latter will consist of three or more ofsaid wires, parallel with each other and in a horizontal position, andtherefore the aforesaid provision of eyelets, rigidly seated on saidrespective fence wires, will afford means for mutually attaching andthereby bracing the several individual fence wires.

In this application my invention is shown as applied to a single fencewire or runner, but it is equally applicable to a fence cable composedof two or more wire strands. The eyelets aforesaid are formed byexpanding one or more turnsof the coils, which are seated on the wire bymachinery, in a manner similar to the present process of seating barbs,and are thus seated so rigidly as to remain in the position in whichthey are placed, both while being transported and while in subsequentuse. As various obvious modes of interlocking said main wires throughthe medium of said eyelets can be adopted, I do not deem it necessary toshow or describe any of said methods of interlocking, as my inventionconsists in merely furnishing the main fence wire, or cable, with theseattached eyelets.

The eyelets aforesaid may be seated in Va rious modes, and may consistof a distinct loop 0 on each side of the wire, or one of such loops ofsufficient size to permit of the insertion of the cross ties from bothabove and below the wire A.

In Figure 1 of the drawings is shown ashort wire, having its centralportion formed into two loops 0, extending, respectively, above andbelow the wire at right angles thereto and with its free ends Drespectively coiled tightly around the wire A on each side of saidcentral loop 0. Fig. 2 represents a Wire provided with loops ofsubstantially the form of that shown in Fig. 1, except that there is butone loop (1 extending from one side of the wire A. Fig. 3 shows a loopcentrally coiled at each side around the main wire, with its looped endsextending oppositely from the latter, one of said looped ends beingpassed through the other in the process'of coiling.

Similar letters refer tosimilar parts throughout the several views.

A is the main fence wire, which, as before stated, may consist of asingle wire, or a wire cable comprised of two or more wire strands.

. B is an eyelet seated on the wire A, and extending respectively aboveand below the lat.- ter and at right angles thereto, so as to form theloops 0 O. The eyelet B is formed of a straight piece of wire bent intoan elliptic form at its central portion, with its free ends D projectingpast each other on opposite sides of said central portion, and coiled,respect ively, tightly around the wire A, with one or more completecoils, each of the wires A constituting the fence being provided withthe eyelets B at short intervals. Each eyelet of one wire may beconnected with the corresponding eyelet of the adjacent wire above orbelow, by an intervening piece of flexible wire, or by a wooden strip,provided with staples adapted to engage loops 0, or said connection maybe made with any other suitable material. The eyelet B is seated bymachinery, being fed to the wire A as the latter is progressed, in amannerv similar to the present system of seating wire barbs, and whenthe eyelet is thus seated the finished product can be coiled, andtransported in the same mode as that adopted for transportation ofbarbed wire.

In Fig. 2 is shown an eyelet B, having a single loop 0, seated in thesame mode as that hereinbefore described in reference to the eyeletshown in Fig. 1.

-The advantage of the construction shown in Fig. 2 is in an economy ofmaterial, and in requiring less machinery to seat it; but as one of thestays would be required to pass the wire A to engage the eyelet B, therewould be less flexibility in the complete fence than in the constructionshownin Fig. 1.

The eyelet shown in Fig. 3 is formed with two loops 0, C, which projectin opposite directions from the wire the same as shown in Fig. 1. Theeyelet is placed at its center against the wire A, and coiled centrallyat each side around said wire by one of its loops being passed throughthe other, and its respective loops then projected in oppositedirections. This is a very simple form, and, when in place on the wireA, serves all of the functions of the form shown in Fig. l.

The advantages of my invention are that, instead of the ordinary barbedwire of commerce, to which some objection is made from the fact of itsliability to injure stock, the wire A of my invention can be cheaplyfurnished with the eyelets B rigidly seated thereon, and after the wiresA thus provided with eyelets are in place on the fence, the interconnection of the same, as aforesaid, may

be readily accomplished, and the completed structure will be of aflexible character which will yield to undue strain without breakage,and return to its normal position when the strain is removed. Also theinterconnection aforesaid has the advantage of unifying all of theseveral wires into substantially one structure.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is-- The combination with afence wire, of an eyeletrigidly secured thereto, said eyelet being formed with two loops whichproject in opposite directions from the wire, the central portion of theeyelet being coiled tightly around the wire and one of the loops passedthrough the other loop, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aftix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MATHIAS F. MONELLY.

Witnesses:

WASHINGTON M. DILLON, JOHN G. MANAHAN.

